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Board advances ordinance to require conditional use for removing residential units, with amendments and further review
Summary
On first reading the board passed an amended ordinance requiring conditional use authorization for removal of residential units (with several exceptions), and approved technical edits and referral for trailing legislation to address single-family and unauthorized in-law unit concerns.
The Board advanced on first reading an ordinance (item 13) that would require conditional use authorization for the removal of any residential unit — whether authorized or unauthorized — subject to enumerated exceptions.
Sponsor Supervisor Chris Tang and Supervisor John Avalos described the ordinance as a housing-preservation measure intended to protect rental units and tenants from demolition or conversion that removes housing stock. The ordinance includes exceptions for single-family homes that are demonstrably unaffordable or unsound and for units that previously received…
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